(DALIANNEWS)- Xiao Shengfeng, mayor of Dalian city, met with a delegation led by Rakesh Bhatia, principal and partner of PWC’s global service delivery center in Dalian, a port city of Northeastern China’s Liaoning Province, September 23, 2016, so as to conduct a pragmatic exchange on deepening the cooperation for both sides.

Mayor Xiao extended a warm welcome to the delegation and introduced the city’s economic and social development to them.

“PWC is the largest international accounting and consulting company in the world. It set up a branch in Dalian in 1994, making a sound development performance and also a great contribution to the city’s accounting and business consulting industry.”, said Xiao.

“Dalian is a leading city in the Northeast China in the process of reform and opening-up. In recent years, we have made full use of the advantages of environment, talents and policy to speed up the development of software and information service industry, and form an industrial cluster with over 100 billion yuan. Dalian is embracing a significant historical opportunity due to the construction of Jinpu new district and national independent innovation demonstration zone as well as the approval of the free trade pilot zone. We hope that PWC will seize this opportunity to create its business center in northern China and further expand its business fields. The city’s governments at all levels will continue to improve the investment environment, innovate mechanism and create favorable conditions, so as to provide high-quality service to companies in Dalian.”, added Xiao.

Rakesh Bhatia introduced the PWC’s development plan in Dalian. “Dalian has optimized its investment environment day by day, and also built a nice image of openness. PWC will transfer more high-end consulting business to Dalian, and cooperate with local universities to cultivate IT top talents, so as to make contributions to the city’s transformation and upgrading of software and information service industry.”, said Rakesh Bhatia.